Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.